WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2025: * * * Boyle Statement on July 2025 PCE Inflation Data PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Today, Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported an annual personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index of 2.6 percent more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Boyle Statement on Trump Administration's Illegal "Pocket Rescission" Budget Committee Democrats Release New Explainer on Illegal "Pocket Rescissions" * PHILADELPHIA, PA - Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement after reports that the Trump administration announced an illeg more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Fed's Persistently High Interest Rates Are Unjustified and Harming America's Economy Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the release of the July 2025 reading of the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure, the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) price index: "This latest inflation report i more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Following Lujan Push to Protect Prescription Drugs From Extreme Tariffs, President Trump Backs Down From 250% Tariff Threat * Santa Fe, N.M. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, announced that following his push to spotlight the harmful impact of sweeping new tariffs on prescription drugs and domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers, the Trump administ more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Following Lujan Push to Protect Prescription Drugs From Extreme Tariffs, President Trump Backs Down From 250% Tariff Threat * Santa Fe, N.M. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, announced that following his push to spotlight the harmful impact of sweeping new tariffs on prescription drugs and domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers, the Trump administ more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Gallego Leads Colleagues in Calling for Surge of Infant Formula into Gaza * WASHINGTON - Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Peter Welch (D-VT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called on the Trump administration to use its full power and authority to demand that Israeli government immediately facilitate a massive surge of ready-to-feed infant formula into Gaza. At leas more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan Announce Introduction of Legislation to Restore Abortion Access Nationwide * Introduction of the Women's Health Protection Act comes as Trump and Congressional Republicans move to restrict a woman's right to choose and toward a national abortion ban WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) joined the entire Senate Democratic caucus in int more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan, Colleagues Reintroduce Child Care for Working Families Act * Heinrich & Lujan fight for affordable child care while Trump & Republicans attack Head Start & cut federal child care programs to give massive tax handouts to billionaires WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), one of only two Head Start graduates to serve in the Senate, joine more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan, Whitehouse, Colleagues Reintroduce Bicameral Bill to Make Homeownership More Accessible for First-Time Buyers * WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) led 12 Democratic senators in reintroducing the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Act, legislation that aims to support middle-class Americans purchasing their f more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan, Whitehouse, Colleagues Reintroduce Bicameral Bill to Make Homeownership More Accessible for First-Time Buyers * WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) led 12 Democratic senators in reintroducing the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Act, legislation that aims to support middle-class Americans purchasing their f more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Kelly Joins Gallego, Democratic Colleagues to Call for Surge of Infant Formula into Gaza * Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Peter Welch (D-VT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called on the Trump administration to use its full power and authority to demand that Israeli government immediately facilitate a massive surge of ready-to-feed infant formula into Gaza. At least more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-New York, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Meeks Introduces Resolution to Terminate Trump's Brazil Tariffs Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on introduction of his resolution to terminate the false "national emergency" President Trump announced to impose tariffs on Brazil. Original cosponsors include more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Neal Celebrates Federal Appeals Court Rebuke of Trump's Illegal Tariffs SPRINGFIELD, MA -- Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled President Trump's tariffs unlawful: "Today's ruling is a victory for the rule of law, for  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Neal Statement on Labor Day 2025 SPRINGFIELD, MA -- Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) put out the following statement ahead of Labor Day 2025: "Labor Day is a celebration of our nation's workers: for building our country and for their continued work to make it the America we know and love. But this year, the more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump's Clean Energy Decimation Trump Administration Claws Back Investments in Jobs, Local Economies, and Energy Dominance * Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement on the Trump administration's latest attack on clean energy: "This is a new level of idiocracy, w more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Robert Garcia, D-California, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Robert Garcia Investigates Reports of Foreign Money Flowing to President Trump's Son-in-Law Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to President Trump's son-in-law, Michael Boulos, businessman and Boulos associate, James Frangi, and Saudi busine more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Thompson Statement on Trump's Dangerous Revocation of Secret Service Protection for Vice President Harris Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after reports that President Trump abruptly stripped former Vice President Kamala Harris  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release: * * * House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought's unlawful effort to unilaterally cancel appropriated funding: "House Democrats are focused on lowering the cost of more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Ricketts' Federal Issues Forum Highlights Work with Trump Administration to Get America Back on Track * GRAND ISLAND, NE - Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) hosted his second Federal Issues Forum at the Nebraska State Fair. The event included a legislative update from Senator Ricketts and two panel discussions on federal issues facing Nebraskans. Guests for this year's forum included EPA Ad more PR

MONTEVALLO, Alabama, Aug. 30 -- The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Ilse Wiechers, deputy executive director of the Office of Mental Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, from an Aug. 22, 2025, field hearing entitled "Separating Fact From Fiction: Exploring Alternative Therapies for Veterans' Mental Health": * * * Good morning, Senator Tuberville and everyone joining us here today. Thank you for the opportunity  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Waters, Foster, Warren, and Gallego Demand Answers from Navy Federal Credit Union on Overdraft Fees Letter comes after Trump's CFPB refused to explain why it cancelled an order requiring Navy Federal to pay back servicemembers and military families * Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Financial Service more PR